Dominic Cummings to make public statement later today

Dominic Cummings will deliver a public statement and take questions today after he was accused of breaking lockdown restrictions on more than one occasion.

The Prime Minister’s most senior aide travelled to Durham at the end of March with his wife and son after they started showing coronavirus symptoms.

A group of cross-party MPs and the public have since called for him to be sacked, but Boris Johnson said he acted ‘responsibly, legally and with integrity.’

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